Farnsworth's Classical English metaphor /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jaffrey, New Hampshire :
David R. Godine,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | xv, 243 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Bibliography: | Sources and uses of comparisons -- The use of animals to describe humans -- The use of nature to describe abstractions -- The use of nature to describe inner states -- The use of nature and other sources to describe language -- Human biology -- Extreme people -- Occupations -- Extreme circumstances -- The classical world and other sources of story -- Architecture and other man-made things -- Personification -- The construction of similes -- The construction of metaphors. |
| ISBN: | 9781567925487 (alk. paper) 1567925480 (alk. paper) |